Sunday, January 18, 2009
Books This Week in Constant Reader
Posted by Paul Constant on Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:25 PM
This week in Constant Reader, to counter all the deadly serious poetry in the news lately, I write about a funny young poet.
Recently, New Mexico publisher Destructible Heart Press published a handsome chapbook called An Inaccurate Theory of Everything by Seattle poet Jeremy Richards. It's a perfect example of how a poem can be smart, affecting, and funny.The book opens with "T. S. Eliot's Lost Hip Hop Poem" ("Straight out of Missouri,/Harvard University in your face./I've got ladies in waiting all over/the place, singing each to each;/do I dare eat a peach?... For I will tell you/that I have scuttled across the floors of ancient clubs..."), and it continues with poems that start with a standup comic's sense of playfulness and land with a perfect dismount as something more profound.
I hope you'll read the whole thing.
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